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PROCEEDINGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Delagoa Bay, the communication was suddenly interrupted after 

 one of these earthquake-shocks, which seems to have caused the 

 falling in of rocks by which the cable was crushed. 



" I have the honour to be &c, 

 " John Kirk, 

 H.M. Agent and Consul-General^ Zanzibar." 

 " The Right Honourable 

 Earl Granville, Sfc. 

 London." 



2. " The Permian, Triassic, and Liassic Rocks of the Carlisle 

 Basin." By T. V. Holmes, Esq., F.G.S. 



3. " On Astroconia Granti, a new Lyssakine Hcxactinellid from 

 the Silurian Formation of Canada.'' By Prof. W. J. Sollas, M.A., 

 F.G.S. 



The following objects were exhibited : — 



Specimens illustratiDg the transformation of Spodumene into 

 Felspars, from Branchville, Connecticut, exhibited by H. Bauer- 

 man, Esq., F.G.S. 



Canine of Deuterosaurus biarmicus, Eichw., from the Upper Per- 

 mian of Kargalinsk Steppe, Russia, exhibited by W. H. Twelvetrees, 

 Esq., F.G.S. 



Plates prepared for the illustration of the next part of Dr. A. 

 Fritsch's 'Fauna der Gaskohle und der Kalksteine der Permfor- 

 mation Bohmens.' 



March 9, 1881. 

 Robert Etheridge, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Robert Thompson Burnett, Esq., Irlams o'th'Height, near Man- 

 chester ; "William Erasmus Darwin, Esq., B.A., Basset, South- 

 ampton ; Charles James Fox, Esq., 26 South Molton Street, W. ; 

 and the Rev. T. Granger Hutt, M.A., Sedbergh, Yorkshire, were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " Description of Parts of the Skeleton of an Anomodont Reptile 

 (Platypodosaurus robustus, Ow.). — Part II. The Pelvis." By Prof. 

 Owen, C.B., F.R.S., F.G.S., &c. 



2. " On the Order Theriodontia, with a Description of a new 

 Genus and Species (JElurosaurus felinus, Ow.)." By Prof. Owen, 

 C.B., F.R.S., F.G.S. 



3. " Additional Observations on the Superficial Geology of British 

 Columbia and adjacent regions." By G. M. Dawson, Esq., D.Sc, 

 F.G.S. 



